Originally posted by CGJung Andreas, thank you. I've ordered the adapter.
It must be nice for you to live in one of the most exotic island in the world. I noticed that you traveled around a lot, too. I guess it helps you to hunt all the good 'glasses' from every corner of the world.
Togu
hope that you will be happy with the adapter Togu!
( yes, one may say I travel a lot. Most of the time I don't feel like traveling though but going to a number of places every year for specific reasons and simply living my life. To Bali I have come every year since abt. 20 years, time ago for 4 or 5 months, now it's usually for just about 5 or 6 weeks. Similar it has been with Japan and Nepal, during these last years it was Vietnam I spent more time than anywhere else. Therefore I not consider myself living in Bali, or any other place really, or better I should feel I live in all of them
Sometimes I go to some new place and 'travel', this year made two short trips of just 2 weeks each to China and Taiwan. )
A good number of my lenses, specially Takumars and Pentax K, I bought in Japan for less than I would expect having to pay in Europe. Of some specially early Takumars which typically are harder to find outside Japan I could not resist and bought more than one copy and resold some if someone showed interest ( a list of available lenses at the profile at my flickr ). These last 2 years however the unfavorable exchange rate makes good deals very hard to come by. A few years ago I made a bargain with two lenses in India where I guess one still could have luck, a few I bought in Vietnam and the Philippines but not cheap, prices there usually are even higher than in Europe.
One real good thing is that I found people in various countries that can service old lenses for little money, e.g. here my Vivitar f2/28 gets it's focus ring smoother again right on the street
in Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, so does my Auto Takumar f2.8/105 seen in the background:
haha, and smoking while doing it
both taken with S-M-C 1.4/50 on K-x
best greetings,
andreas
Last edited by kuuan; 08-19-2012 at 11:18 PM.